What Paul said. Other SMB bummers:
1. It's stateful more intensely so than NFSv3 or NFSv4 will
ever be.
2. It's heavily broadcast mediated. Turn on tcpdump and
watch the traffic fly.
3. Browse lists suck. It can take as long as 45 minutes for
newly shared directories to eventually get registered
with the browse master.
Don't sweat the Sun portmapper, Microsoft uses one too - probably
under the name "endpoint supply service". I can read Sun's
portmapper. I can't read Microsoft's. I generally know when an
application is using Sun's RPC infrastructure. Any application
written with MFC is likely to use some parts of the COM infrastructure
and may not even be aware of it.
Choosing SMB to avoid the portmapper is like choosing to eat cheese to
avoid the cholesterol in meat.
ccb
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